Do not that to another, which thou wouldst not have done to thyself.

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

Do not that to another, which thou wouldst not have done to thyself.

Whatsoever accidents or qualities our senses make us think there be in the world, they are not there, but are seemings and apparitions only. The things that really are in the world without us, are those motions by which these seemings are caused. And this is the great deception of sense, which also is by sense to be corrected. For as sense telleth me, when I see directly, that the colour seemeth to be in the object; so also sense telleth me, when I see by reflection, that colour is not in the object.

Can it then be doubted, but that God, who is infinitely fine Spirit, and withal intelligent, can make and change all species and kind of body as he pleaseth? But I dare not say, that this is the way by which God Almighty worketh, because it is past my apprehension: yet it serves very well to demonstrate, that the omnipotence of God implieth no contradiction.

Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money.

Competition of praise inclineth to a reverence of antiquity. For men contend with the living, not with the dead.